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... look at the practice and ex- ample of other Christians , in forming the standard of piety at which you aim . The allowance of this thing has probably had a more disastrous influence on the church and on the world , than all other causes ...
... look at the practice and ex- ample of other Christians , in forming the standard of piety at which you aim . The allowance of this thing has probably had a more disastrous influence on the church and on the world , than all other causes ...
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... look around among their Christian friends , and turn to them for aid , as those who have had experience and have made advances in Christian life , they find that they seem to look upon duties and deficiencies in a very different manner ...
... look around among their Christian friends , and turn to them for aid , as those who have had experience and have made advances in Christian life , they find that they seem to look upon duties and deficiencies in a very different manner ...
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Look into your Bible , and see how Chris- tians ought to live . See how the Bible says those who are Christians must live , and then , if you find your Christian friends living in a different way , instead of having cause for feeling ...
Look into your Bible , and see how Chris- tians ought to live . See how the Bible says those who are Christians must live , and then , if you find your Christian friends living in a different way , instead of having cause for feeling ...
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... look upon the faithfulness of Christ in unchange- ably continuing his loving kindness , notwith- standing all your great unworthiness since your conversion . " 6. Be always greatly abased for your remaining sin , and never think that ...
... look upon the faithfulness of Christ in unchange- ably continuing his loving kindness , notwith- standing all your great unworthiness since your conversion . " 6. Be always greatly abased for your remaining sin , and never think that ...
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... look upon those as the best discoveries , and the best com- forts , that have most of these two effects : those that make you least and lowest , and most like a child ; and those that most engage and fix your heart in a full and firm ...
... look upon those as the best discoveries , and the best com- forts , that have most of these two effects : those that make you least and lowest , and most like a child ; and those that most engage and fix your heart in a full and firm ...
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Page 88 - In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the Lord their God. They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, "Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Page 24 - But we were gentle- among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children : so being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
Page 67 - But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth ? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee ; how much less this house which I have built...
Page 29 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the orna-ment of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 83 - And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing ; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
Page 26 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul : the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart : the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Page 27 - Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Page 45 - who gathers the lambs in his " arms, and carries them in his bosom," is pleased at times to favour him with cordials, that he may not be swallowed up with over-much sorrow.
Page 127 - Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Page 32 - Though vilest of them all ; But, can I bear the piercing thought, What if my name should be left out, When thou for them shalt call?